In Coconut Grove we have 2 families of Peacocks living in the neighborhood. This week, one of the families decided to stay with us!
So for your inspiration, here they are:
Tag Archives: motion design
Minidog & Sunny Octopus go to the sandbar
We rescued a doggie last Friday right in front of the marina. And… he ended up staying with us. His name is Minidog. My cats are slowly getting used to him, but still hissing at him a lot. We took him in the boat to the sandbar (with life jacket! hahaha) and he took a swim for the first time in his life. Here is him jumping from the boat and the amazing sunny octopuses (animated octopus cartoon characters) that were swimming with us in the ocean:
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Pictures of my art studio
Welcome to my yellow world!! This is my studio in Coconut Grove:
This is my wonderful view and my computer. It makes me very happy to look at the green palm trees and the pool.
Aleloop's computer and wonderful view
This is my drafting table to draw, paint and sculpt characters
Drafting table
These are 4 gyclee canvas prints I did at @imagekind. I printed them also on paper a little bit bigger. These are from a series very different to everything I do with characters. The main theme is what women are about. These are original digital art, drawn in the computer and are a mix of intricate women drawings and a collage of elements.
gyclee canvas prints of Aleloop's art
These are some of my character based graphic tees, the crazy robot is on the front of course! click here to see more about them see TV and newspaper interviews in my media page. And on the wall I painted 2 character cats that I’ve been drawing non stop for a few months now.
These are my graphic tees and my characters
Here are some of my toys, Boomerang lamp and lunch box from when I was working at the Cartoon Network, some family pics, a couple of screen printed gift boxes, some of my design awards up there and 2 stop motion armatures I built a while a go and are awesome!
Aleloop toys, awards, pics and stop motion armatures
These are one of my two sets of black butterflies, with a canvas print of my Chihuahuas characters and Cartoon Network clock. I love the black butterflies, when I look at them, is like they take me flying to a wonderful world with them.
Aleloop's Chihuahuas canvas print and black butterflies
This is the other set of black butterflies next to my computer. I find them like if they are magical beings that are still and in silence next to me.
Aleloop pictures, black butterflies and sewing machine
Oh and this is the top of my screen printing 4 color table top and my inspiration wall:
aleloop screen printing table top and inspiration wall
This is my wall of original artwork for screenprinting and gyclee prints:
aleloop original artwork and insipiration
And at last, here are my beautiful (dog like behavior) two and half cats hanging out outside. They walk with me to the studio like if they are dogs, and stay with me pretty much all day in the studio either eating, asking for attention, sleeping or asking me to walk with them back home. These are Orbit, Mundo and Minicat:
aleloop cats hanging out
Keeping a video library for motion graphics, motion design, animation and broadcast design projects
Hello!
In this video I talk about the importance of keeping a video library, how it can help any illustrator, designer, motion graphics artist, motion designer, animator or broadcast designer save a lot of time when getting new projects with quick turns arounds. I shot it at the beautiful Biltmore Hotel, here in Coral Gables during a weekend retreat to plan the rest of the year (I know! so much work, but it was great!)
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Think Out the Box
Hi!
In this video I talk about looking at EVERYTHING with new eyes to find inspiration EVERYWHERE.
Enjoy!
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7UP TV Commercial "Sevenisima" by Aleloop
And at last! The 7UP TV commercial animated by Aleloop of the delicious all natural new 7UP for the Latino market in the United States. This TV commercial is a mix of live action and animation -my specialty- with a wonderful soundtrack by the beautiful Denise Gonzalez (she sings awesome). Shot in Mexico and produced in the States and Argentina this TV commercial shows how the animated world of the new All Natural 7UP comes into our ‘reality’.
During the amazing week I spend in DF, Mexico City, we shot 2 commercials actually (plus 2 music videos that I’m currently working on). This is the second commercial we shot. We spent 2 days – 18-20 hour days!- shooting each commercial and music video for each brand: 7up and Dr Pepper (see in the posting below) for the Snapple Group.
This TV commercial is more complex than the Dr Pepper commercial because the live action characters interact a lot more with the animation. Originally, the final shot was in the “Sevenisima” animated world where the family was completely immersed in the animation. You’ll be able to see that fully when we are done with the Music Video for this 7up product, because it happens entirely in the animated world.
We shot almost the entire commercial in green and blue screen. Why we shot using both colors? Read below:
When to choose Blue Screen over Green Screen?
In is TV commercial we had a lot of shots in studio where we needed to separate the live action characters from their background (to place them in post production into the animated world), so we shot those takes using Green Screen for background. We used Green Screen because we didn’t have any clothing or objects that contained that color, so it’s a good color to create good keys. But, in some shots, when the 7up can or bottle where in the screen, we had to be very careful to not have it alone against the green background, because the 7up can & bottle are green! And keying properly green on green it’s very tedious and hard to achieve. So for the shots were we had 7up cans, bottles and anything else green like tree branches, we used Blue Screen as a background instead.
I love when the live action characters interact with the animated world because it makes the spot magical and I love that.
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